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Tim Fairfax, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018

Announcing Shakespeare to Winehouse

More than eighty treasures from the National Portrait Gallery London will travel to Canberra for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from March 2022.

Bangarra brothers: songman, storyteller, dancer

Creative kin

National Portrait Gallery unveils twenty new portrait commissions to celebrate twenty years

The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.

The Lambert

Barbering manuals of the turn of the century might describe this style as a ‘Van Dyck’, named after the Dutch painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) who is known to have adopted this look.

The Last Paul Mumme Work, 2015

Finalist, DPA 2016

Selected images

Take a peek at a selection of the portraits you can see in the exhibition.

Announcing.... In their own words

Inspiring Australians tell their own stories in a unique new gallery audio tour, developed in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.

2012-13 Acquisition Fund

The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.

The Icons Syndicate

Annual membership of the Icons Syndicate is $5,000 and you are invited to join by making a tax-deductible donation to the National Portrait Gallery.

NPG Announces departure of Director, Karen Quinlan AM

National Portrait Gallery Chair Penny Fowler announced today that NPG Director Karen Quinlan will leave the Gallery in September to take up a new position as Chief Executive Officer of Arts Centre Melbourne.

Alina Gozin'a

An interview with the photographer.

Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018

Jacki Weaver, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018

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